Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tiered network flow analysis
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Application No.: US13964506Application Date: 2013-08-12
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Publication No.: US09305164B1Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: Eric Jason Brandwine , Swaminathan Sivasubramanian , Bradley E. Marshall , Tate Andrew Certain
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; G06F9/00 ; G06F21/55 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F15/173

Abstract:
The effects on networking systems of attacks on vulnerabilities, such as vulnerable modules in a webserver, SYN flooding, etc, can be devastating to a network environment. In various embodiments, a first, quick, or inexpensive analysis is performed on incoming network flows. If an intrusion issue or other problem is suspected based on the first, rapid, or an inexpensive analysis, then the flow can be flagged for redirection to another process, virtual machine, or physical computer module that will perform a deeper, more expensive analysis on the network flow. If there are no issues detected in the second, deeper analysis, then the network flow can be forwarded to its intended recipient. If an issue is detected in the second, deeper analysis, then the network flow can be throttled, quarantined, ignored, sent to an un-trusted portion of the system, sent for more analysis, or otherwise handled or flagged.
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